The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-09-30

chair, as he puSheQ b3 plaCe away
with a laugh he could repress no long
or.
"If she took your diamond. Well.
my darling, l am glad you arrived at
the diamond once more. / began to
think it had been lost again. But
don't tell me about the incOnsequenCe
OF a wUman's mind. It's workings
are la]byrinthine, but the thought al
ways comes out at the place 1t went
in. Now, let us be bUsiness-like, if we
can, Janet. What makes you think
this pretty Mildred OF ours took the
diamOnd?"
"Pretty Mildred! Well perhaps be-
cause she is pretty" said Mrs. Tor
race, looking like d satiriCal sparrow.
Not at all impossible" said her
husband, gravely.
"NOu don't mean to imply that !
would denounce a person as a thief be-
cause you said she was pretty?' cried
Mrs. Terrace, hall rising to her feet.
"I've as good a mind to leave the
table as aver | mad to eat. | would,
If the buckwheat cakes had come up"
"My dear child"
lou JISdI IlG SA0CLl4 dS IL l WIZ
q child" cried the outraged wife.
"What do ! care whether my maid is
pretty or not? Being pretty, APP
p~arently, dosn't keep her hands from
picking and stealing. | know she stole
my diamond just as well as il | had
seen her do it,"
"But what would she do with it,"
"What a question! AS if that sort
of person didn't know where to dis
pose OF things easily and take care OF
the proceeds! | wonder if Patricia is
never goingto send those cakes up"
"How in the world did our cook
come to be called Patricia"
II called her so myself when she
came. Her own name was Hannah,
a combination of sounds | utterly de-
test and wasn't going to have ringing
in my ears all the time. And she is so
tall and erect she justifes Patricia.
Don't you think so?"
Albright" said Mr.. Torrance, think
ing it best to make no reference to the
Noras of a few minutes since. But
we were speaking Of Mildred"
II did think very well OF Mildred,
l will confess, before this" said Mrs.
Torrance, with judicial calmness. "She
is educating her sister, who has a
voice-suCh a voiCe-fora church sing
err, when she will have a salary that
will be wealth to them, and give some
lessons besides. And she was wrap
ped up in her. And l took an interest
in them myself, and gave her a silk
dress to make over and got a new
cloak that l really did not need in
order so as to give her my old one
land l saw she had the good taste
to take off some of the trimming),
and lots of my old music. And out
OF her own wages Mildred has to hire
a room aud a piano and pay for her
lessons, somebody gives her her board
till she can pay the debt, and it takes
every cent Mildred earns; and, you
see, it is quite natural that she should
look about her to find where she can
turn a penny"
"An honest penny" said Mr.. Tor
rance. ga girl who is doing that for
another is not one that would be
likely to turn any other sort of PEN
n.y."
How you do love to interrupt me,
Mr.. Torrancel 1t really seems as if
you couldn't bear the sound OF my
voice! / was going on to say, before
you took the words out of my mouth,
that recently this sister Of hers has
bean advised to take lessons of
another master, who asks all crea-
tion, but is really worth it. And he
says he can make her voice a fortune
to her. And they have been dread
fully cast down because they couldn't
do it. And now you see where the
diamond ZONES in. Il she cen got for
that stone anything near its value
her sister Mabel can take her lessons.
And her voice is delicious-iust per-
fsctly d~eliciousl" exclaimed Mrs. Tor
rance, forgetting the diamond again;
mildred had her come here and sing
to me. And I can'tdescribeit to you
/ never heard a lark or nightingale,
but a bobolink isn't a whistle to it.
A flute, a trumpet-well, it was
sweet and satisfying and penetrating
as the odor OF some flower, and
y ct as soft as the velvet side Of the
petals OF the flower, Angels would
sing so, maybe, If there are any.
And / was just carried away. / for
got all about her sister being my
maid. / cried and | laughed, and /
felt as II | had found her. And now |
will solemnly tell you, Archy, dear"
ard she bent across the pretty china
service, transfxed him with her radi-
ant eyes-"I looked at my ring, and
/ turned II and turned il. and / said
to myself / had had the good or it
yer since Grandfather De Peyster
gave it to me. and everybody knew /
had iJ, and my position was pretty
well established diamond rings ornot,
and when you were able to afford a
real grown-up butler you would prob
ably get nc plenty; and il | sold It
now, and give this poor dear girl the
money to secure her career, what a
blessing il would be to her, and what
a JOY / should be giving to the world
in her, too; for. Of course, she would